North River Ranch

10/31/2025

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10/21/2025

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10/20/2025

Any 4H kids out there with an Arabian needing to upgrade their show equipment for 2026? I"ll help you fit the saddle and appoint your Arab. Billy Royal with REAL German Silver, not plated. Seat = 15inches.

10/19/2025

Someone posted a great photo of the Trapezoid Theory of good conformation. It's been around for a long time. I looked at photo and because I have also been a photography student realized that the rule of perfect thirds...which is good design...applies to horses also...so I drew the grid. My grid isn't perfect, but you can see the perfect squares...prove this horse is very well balanced. We use to teach a long time ago that a horse would fit into a box if it had good conformation...it's geometry. Horses who do not fit into the box and are not balanced will be prone to injury due to weakness. A balanced horse is strong. They are usually smooth to ride. They can drive forward, lift their rib cage and reach. Angles also play a roll. This horse has a perfect slope to his pastern and which is like a shock on your car. Todays horses are being bred with too straight of pasterns in the front and the hind limbs are too straight also. I see a lot of it...and then I look at how sloppy the rider is in the seat...there is a correlation.

10/16/2025

Here is the information about deworming...this is with herbs.

10/15/2025

Barefoot Trimmer Tamera Cunningham will be speaking at our upcoming Whole Horse Seminar about hoof care and barefoot trimming. Tamera is a professional farrier now, but her whole horse journey started with a very special mare.

“Victoria, was diagnosed with Navicular disease. I tried everything that is traditionally recommended to cure it, but nothing changed for her. It was only after I started a holistic approach to her hoof health that I had a sound and happy horse again.”

Now a professional ‘hoof nerd,’ Tamera says, “Victoria was what inspired my lifelong journey to help more horses get healthy, strong hooves that support their lifestyles and don’t hold them back.”

Over the past 12 years, Tamera has taken clinics with and studied the work of Pete Ramey, Jaime Jackson, Nic Barker, Dr. Debra Taylor, Dr. Robert Bowker, Paige Poss, Gene Ovnicek, and Dr. Hilary Clayton.

“There are so many elements that contribute to hoof issues, it makes sense that there are many elements needed to get a healthy hoof. I’m so excited to share my knowledge with you at the Whole Horse Seminar, and help your horses blossom and thrive.”

Get all the details of our upcoming event, the Whole Horse Seminar on my website

https://wholesomeequinenutrition.com/events/

10/15/2025

We had an amazing weekend of Pete Ramey Webinars: Understanding and Reversing “Sinkers” and Hoof Capsule Rotation!

Part 1: Understanding “Sinkers” and Hoof Capsule Rotation
Understand the landmarks for the estimation of CE (the vertical location of the bones relative to the hoof capsule) and sole thickness. Misunderstanding of this phenomenon causes some of the most critical errors commonly made by professional hoof care providers and horse owners. Consider sole thickness as part of the breakover equation.

Part 2: Reversing “Sinkers” and Hoof Capsule Rotation
Pete will share the subtle mechanics behind successful hoof capsule rotation and distal descent reversal. Learn to evaluate and select the best current heel height/palmar angle to best support healing. Understand why heel height is the most important balancing act in hoof care and rehabilitation (and the most variable from horse to horse, even day to day). The importance of prioritizing impact and peak load mechanics vs. standing mechanics.

Pete Ramey has been a full-time farrier/rehabilitation specialist since 1994. He is the author of the book, Care and
Rehabilitation of the Equine Foot, six instructional video sets, hundreds of articles about hoof care and has taught clinics and worked on horses all over the world.